Living in a bubble

Learning English Conversations

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Do you know someone who's a bit sheltered from the problems of the world?

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:05.6	Hello, this is the English we speak with me, Faye.
0:09.6	And me, Roy!
0:11.6	Roy, what are you holding? This, it's a sword. I can see it's a sword. Why do you have one?
0:22.0	Well, I overheard you saying your friend Sandra is living in a bubble.
0:28.0	So I asked my pal at the museum if I could borrow a sword to help your friend escape.
0:34.4	No Roy, I said Sandra lives in a bubble, but it means that she doesn't really accept
0:42.2	new ideas and all her friends have the same way of thinking.
0:47.0	Living in a bubble is the expression we're looking at in this programme.
0:52.0	Ah, that makes more sense.
0:55.0	I just imagine that she might have got stuck in a bubble after washing her hands.
1:01.0	Roy, your imagination never ceases to amaze me. You know what we should do?
1:07.6	I think we should listen to some examples.
1:11.0	Bob and his friends think that climate change isn't real.
1:16.0	They live in a bubble.
1:18.0	Nelson lives in a bubble.
1:21.0	He never tries new food or goes out with new people.
1:25.0	Geraldine doesn't want to meet my new friends. She thinks they live in a bubble.
1:31.0	This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English and we're talking about the
1:36.3	expression living in a bubble which is used to describe someone who doesn't listen
1:42.1	to people with different ideas or maybe is a little
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